US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on July 14 for "Laser light irradiation system and laser light irradiation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,227, issued on July 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser light irradiation system and laser light irradiation method" was invented by Takumi Hayashi (Tokyo) and Yuhei Takata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser light irradiation system that irradiates a stone in a body with laser light to cause the stone to be dust, the laser light irradiation system including a laser fiber that emits the laser light, and a processor configured to control a frequency of the laser light emitted from the laser fiber, wherein the processor is configured to switch between first laser light of a first frequency and second laser light...